Category: Fight this Hate

Fatphobia I could write about body shaming, fatphobia, and how these problems are killing people every week. Instead, I write about how Black people are being killed by the police, how transgendered people are being murdered by loved ones and strangers alike, how climate change Read More …

White Supremacy is Our Biggest Threat While white supremacy is all over the news, it isn’t new. White supremacy has been building for centuries, taking over entire continents through genocide, raping and pillaging and destroying the environment. We have seemingly reached a critical tipping point. Read More …

Climate Change As I write today, Mexico has experienced a massive earthquake. Houston Texas is still cleaning up from Hurricane Harvey, while Hurricane Irma has already destroyed Caribbean Islands and is headed for Florida. Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are starting their cleanup Read More …

Disasters Do Not Treat Everyone Equally It’s a popular thought: everyone suffers equally in a disaster. But in fact, that is not the case. Hurricane Katrina should have made us all aware of the truth, but there are those still spouting the lie after Hurricane Read More …

Confederate Statues and What to Do About Them After Charlottesville, more Confederate statues are coming down. And many people don’t understand why. They believe the statues are “our history,” and should remain. Our schools have not taught us the truth. We must educate ourselves. We Read More …

Transgender News As we reel from the news of *Charlottesville and the glaring mirror of white supremacy reflecting the reality of our country, let’s look at some of the other things going on. (*Joyce Hayden’s weekly roundup of news articles on Sunday August 20 contains Read More …

We Are Living in the Future We Created… We celebrated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. It was timed to allow students to participate. Not a break, not final exam time, not a religious or other holiday, just a day set aside to Read More …

Forced Sterilization of Oppressed Citizens Continues Prisoners at the White County jail in Sparta, TN, have recently been given a horrifying choice: Serve their entire sentence behind bars or agree to undergo a sterilization procedure, courtesy of the Tennessee Department of Health, in exchange for Read More …

Millions Still Without Medical Insurance Over the past few months, we have written, emailed, faxed, and phoned our Members of Congress (MoC) repeatedly, asking them to save the Affordable Care Act, to resist President Trump’s efforts to repeal it. We have endured anxiety-ridden days as Read More …

RESIST in Comic Book Form The second issue of Resist!, a free comic book-sized 96-page anthology of comics and cartoons will be handed out during the July 4th weekend by volunteers, as well as in the comic shops and bookstores who pre-ordered it. The comic Read More …